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<h2 id="history">History</h2> <h3>Name change</h3> <p>On June 17, 2011, Cavium Networks, Inc. changed their name to Cavium, Inc.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p> <h3>Acquisitions by Cavium</h3> <table><tbody><tr><th>Date</th><th>Acquired company</th><th>Historical product line</th></tr><tr><td>August 2008</td><td>Star Semiconductor</td><td><a href="/facts/ARM_architecture/SALsYA79">ARM</a>-based systems-on-chip processors<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>December 2008</td><td>W&W Communications</td><td>Video compression software and hardware<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:11" href="#fn:11"><sup>11</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>December 2009</td><td><a href="/facts/MontaVista/jHbsW6FX">MontaVista</a> Software</td><td>Carrier Grade Linux compliant <a href="/facts/Linux/9FvCKSTq">Linux</a> & <a href="/facts/Embedded_systems/a4muX1wU">embedded systems</a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:12" href="#fn:12"><sup>12</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>January 2011<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:13" href="#fn:13"><sup>13</sup></a></td><td>Celestial Semiconductor</td><td><a href="/facts/System_on_a_chip/1RVvVe6N">SoCs</a> for digital media applications, including satellite, cable, and Internet TV<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:14" href="#fn:14"><sup>14</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>February 2011</td><td>Wavesat Telecommunications</td><td>Semiconductor solutions for carrier and mobile device manufacturers</td></tr><tr><td>July 2014</td><td>Xpliant, Inc.</td><td>Switching and SDN Specialist<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:15" href="#fn:15"><sup>15</sup></a></td></tr><tr><td>June 2016</td><td><a href="/facts/QLogic/vzacJ74I">QLogic</a>, Inc.</td><td>Ethernet and Storage Specialist<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:16" href="#fn:16"><sup>16</sup></a></td></tr></tbody></table> <h3>Acquisition of Cavium</h3> <p>In November 2017, Cavium's board of directors agreed to the company's purchase by <a href="/facts/Marvell_Technology_Group/IPlIhlj5">Marvell Technology Group</a> for $6 billion in cash and stock.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:17" href="#fn:17"><sup>17</sup></a> The merger was finalized on July 6, 2018. </p> <h3>NSA Interference</h3> <p>On March 23, 2022, Cavium was named<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:18" href="#fn:18"><sup>18</sup></a> as an NSA "enabled" CPU vendor in a PhD thesis titled "Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance". The "enabled" term refers to a process with which a chip vendor has a backdoor introduced into their designs. </p> <h2 id="products">Products</h2> <p>Cavium began selling security processors in late 2001 with the Nitrox line. The processor had support for features like <a href="/facts/IPsec/01MwcET1">IPsec</a>, <a href="/facts/Secure_Sockets_Layer/pGy16TnA">SSL</a>, <a href="/facts/Intrusion_detection_system/mAw24Fyo">intrusion-detection services</a> as well as <a href="/facts/VPN/HX1WUQ3E">VPNs</a>. In 2004 the company launched the Octeon processor, which was using a 64-bit <a href="/facts/MIPS_architecture/efV4KgK4">MIPS instruction</a> set. At launch Cavium offered Octeon processors with two, four eight or sixteen cores.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:19" href="#fn:19"><sup>19</sup></a> In 2012, the company announced a 1-48 core MIPS-procesoor from the Octeon-line.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:20" href="#fn:20"><sup>20</sup></a> In 2014, the company announced the ThunderX, a 48 core server SoC based on the <a href="/facts/ARM_architecture_family/SALsYA79">ARMv8</a> architecture.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:21" href="#fn:21"><sup>21</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:22" href="#fn:22"><sup>22</sup></a> Cavium also offered <a href="/facts/Ethernet/nMfhU8tU">ethernet</a> switches that were produced in cooperation with Xpliant since 2014.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:23" href="#fn:23"><sup>23</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>"Cavium | Company Overview & News". Forbes. Retrieved 2023-07-19. <a href="https://www.forbes.com/companies/cavium/" target="_blank">https://www.forbes.com/companies/cavium/</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>New York Times Company Profile for Cavium Inc. Archived March 5, 2016, at the Wayback Machine <a href="https://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/cavium-networks-inc/index.html" target="_blank">https://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/cavium-networks-inc/index.html</a> <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Aslam, Haroon (2017-11-24). "NED alumnus sells company to chip-maker Marvell for $6bn". Dawn. 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Retrieved 2019-09-01. <a href="https://www.anandtech.com/show/13055/marvell-completes-acquisition-of-cavium-gets-cpu-networking-security-assets" target="_blank">https://www.anandtech.com/show/13055/marvell-completes-acquisition-of-cavium-gets-cpu-networking-security-assets</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>http://biz.yahoo.com/e/110620/cavm8-k.html [dead link] <a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/e/110620/cavm8-k.html" target="_blank">http://biz.yahoo.com/e/110620/cavm8-k.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>"Cavium Networks Completes Acquisition of Taiwan-Based Star Semiconductor". cavium.com (Press release). Archived from the original on October 11, 2008. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081011220607/http://www.cavium.com/newsevents_Caviumnetworks_STAR_Acquisition.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20081011220607/http://www.cavium.com/newsevents_Caviumnetworks_STAR_Acquisition.html</a> <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:11"><p>"Cavium Networks Completes Acquisition of W&W Communications". cavium.com. Archived from the original on 2016-06-13. Retrieved 2020-07-16. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160613001721/http://cavium.com/newsevents_Caviumnetworks_W%26W_Acquisition.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160613001721/http://cavium.com/newsevents_Caviumnetworks_W%26W_Acquisition.html</a> <a href="#fnref:11" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:12"><p>"Cavium Networks Completes Acquisition of MontaVista Software | embedded virtualization" (Press release). December 18, 2009. Archived from the original on 2016-06-12. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160612234112/https://www.cavium.com/newsevents_Caviumnetworks_MontaVista_Acquisition-Completes.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20160612234112/https://www.cavium.com/newsevents_Caviumnetworks_MontaVista_Acquisition-Completes.html</a> <a href="#fnref:12" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:13"><p>McGrath, Dylan (31 January 2011). "Cavium buys Chinese fabless chip firm". EE Times. Retrieved 17 February 2011. <a href="https://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4212723/Cavium-buys-Chinese-fabless-chip-firm-" target="_blank">https://www.eetimes.com/electronics-news/4212723/Cavium-buys-Chinese-fabless-chip-firm-</a> <a href="#fnref:13" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:14"><p>"Company Overview". Celestial Semiconductor. Archived from the original on 2011-03-09. 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Retrieved 2019-01-14. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170803082412/http://cavium.com/newsevents-Cavium-to-Acquire-Switching-and-SDN-Specialist-Xpliant-to-Accelerate-Deployment-of-Software-Defined-Networks.html" target="_blank">https://web.archive.org/web/20170803082412/http://cavium.com/newsevents-Cavium-to-Acquire-Switching-and-SDN-Specialist-Xpliant-to-Accelerate-Deployment-of-Software-Defined-Networks.html</a> <a href="#fnref:15" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:16"><p>"Company press release: Cavium to Acquire QLogic – Opportunity to drive significant growth at scale in data center and storage markets" (Press release). Archived from the original on 2017-01-14. 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